Just ahead of the launch of Apple's next generation of iPads, Nokia has gone big on hardware, launching six devices at its Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi.

Among the clutch of hardware unveiled on Tuesday by Microsoft's head of devices and services, Stephen Elop, were a pair of phablets, a long-awaited tablet, and three lower-end Asha phones.

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The star of the show was the 1520, a glossy six-inch Full HD device with some of the highest-specced photography hardware you'll find on a phablet, including a 20-megapixel rear-facing camera and six-lens optics.

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There's also some power under the bonnet, with a 2.2Ghz quad-core Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM and a decent 32GB of storage for good measure.

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For those with more modest budgets, there's the 1320 — a similarly sized, but more modestly specced, six-inch phablet.

The camera's been scaled down to five-megapixels, both RAM and storage are halved, the screen's HD, and there's a 1.7Ghz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor doing the grunt work.

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Known as the Lumia 2520, Nokia's first tablet also broke cover at the Abu Dhabi event.